Portion of Ordinance Not in Effect London, July 28.
In the House of Commons to-day, in reply to Viscountess Astor, Con: servative MLP. for the Sutton division of Plymouth, Mr. W. Lun '§8 Parliamentary "Under-Secretary 10 the Colonial Office, said that it had not been thought advisable so far to bring part three of the Hongkong, Ordinance abolishing mui-tsai into operation, mainly because the' Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, with a full knowledge of the problem, was} convinced that registration a gulation of wages could not be made effective in the circumstances which continuously existed in recent years in Hongkong. He added that the! Colonial Secretary, Lord Passfeld (Sidney Webb), was carefully considering the whole problem and a stotment of the position and of his own policy would be forthcoming, shortiy.—Reuter.
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